Since May 16, the number of Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers who have surrendered at the Mariupol steelworks has risen to 1,730. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is keeping a record of all of them in order to track their arrest and help them contact their families.
Euskaraz irakurri: Azov batailoiko 771 militant errenditu dira Azovstalen azken orduotan
Others 771 Ukrainian defenders who remained at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, all from Azov Battalionhave left the metallurgical plant on the last day, with 1,730 soldiers who have surrendered and surrendered to the Russian forces since Monday, as reported today by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Major General Igor Konashénkov has assured that “all those who need hospital treatment receive assistance in medical institutions” in the town of Novoazovsk, in the Donetsk region.
It is not known how many Ukrainian military personnel may still be inside the steelworks.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported today that it has drawn up a Registration of the hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war who have held out at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, in order to follow up on their arrest and help them get in touch with their families.
This registration is carried out through a form in which the soldiers write down their name, date of birth and details of a close relative, the Red Cross explained in a statement.
The “ICRC must have immediate access to all prisoners of war wherever they are, in accordance with the mandate granted by the States through the Geneva Conventions of 1949”, the centenary organization has recalled.
It has also insisted on its right to interview such prisoners without witnesses, or to visit them without restrictions on duration or frequency.
Russia, for its part, has put the commanders of the Azov Battalion Sergei Velichko and Konstantin Nemichev, on the list of search and seizure for allegedly attempting to kill at least eight Russian soldiers in the Ukrainian region of Kherson, according to the Interfax agency.
His files appear on the Interior list of people wanted “in relation to a criminal case.” The Russian Prosecutor’s Office has asked to declare the Azov regiment a terrorist organization due to its “Nazi” character, whose militants are “national heroes” for Ukraine.
the front line
With the fall of the Azovstal steel mill, and the capture of Mariupol, the main port of Donbas, Moscow has gained full control of the Sea of Azov and has conquered the entire line that connects the annexed Crimean peninsula with the separatist regions of Donbas. and they have begun to redeploy part of their troops to other fronts.
Donbas, made up of the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts or regions, continues to be the territory where most attacks are concentrated. The governor of the Lugansk region, Serhity Gaidai, has assured on Telegram that there have been several attacks in the last hours in that region. “Most of today’s shelling has been carried out in Severodonetsk and nearby towns. The Russians are still trying to cut off the ‘road of life’ through the center of the Lugansk region, the road between Lysychansk and Bakhmut.” .
At least four people have been killed in a series of attacks carried out over the past few hours by Russian forces against Severodonetsk.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has said that Ukrainian saboteurs have blown up the tracks in front of an armored train carrying Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol in the south of the country.
On the other hand, at least one civilian has died today and several have been injured in a Ukrainian attack on a border town in the Russian region of Kursk, the governor of that Russian federated entity, Román Starovoit, has denounced.
Source: Eitb
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